Are you a first born?
I have noticed that the vast majority of pilots that I have met are first born children.
I thought it would be interesting to see if this is actually true or that it has just been a bizzare coincedence? So to all pilots - are you the a first born? P.S I wanted to have a poll but I wasn't given the option :( perhaps a moderator could ammend that..... |
I'm first born.
Someone i'm training with is the middle one. Someone else i'm training with is first born AFAIK. |
I recall doing a little test of this at OATS in a groundschool class and we effectively concluded from our (albeit small and statistically invalid!) experiment that it was actually a pretty mixed bunch.
More first borns of course but there are everywhere right? It wasn't significantly more... I am a third born, my older cousin who flies for BA is a third born. Would be interesting to take a random sample of pilots and put this to the test... |
If I remember correctly, this topic has been done previously at least once. Try a search on these forums, and you might find more information readily available. (However, I realize that some of these threads may have been lost over time, so no offense intended.)
FWIW, I'm a last-born (4th child), and know many other pilots -- all who have had a successful flying career for 15-30 years -- who are not first-borns. It's an interesting theory, but I'm not quite sure that the actual reality supports the initial perception. |
I did try and search the forums, but I didn't find a thing? Maybe the thread got lost - maybe i'm just dumb!
I'll have a little search again. [update] Yep - I'm dumb! Found the previous threadhere From what I read of it, there appeared to be a first born majority. It would be interesting to poll it - but for some reason I can't. :( |
i´m first born, but i have people training with me that are 2nd and 3rd born.
cheers RMM |
yup - first born also.
No. 3 in the sequence is also a pilot however. |
It is very interesting...I am firstborn,have a brother.My father and grandfather are also firstborns,and we are all pilots :} :cool:
There is also one more interesting thing I noticed:most of the pilots,some 70 percent,are of my height,or shorter.As I am 175cm tall,5 foot 10 inches,I think,I'd say we are a pretty short bunch :D |
I,m not the first born but am left handed. I believe a very high percentage of pilots are left handed (something to do with co-ordination)
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Version 1.0 as well..
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Im a first born as well! No one ever has been a pilot in my GENERATION ever...!
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Crikey,
I'm first born, left handed AND 5' 10", this has to be an omen:O TBL |
I'm firstbourne [sic] and an ATSA11. However I have noticed that a lot of ATSA111s and ATCOS are "left handed". I myself was left handed, but "forced" to use my right hand at school....am I a failure? :confused:
we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy |
2nd of 2. Altho everyone thinks I'm older than no.1. Must be the flying that ages you.......
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Second Born, Left Handed, 5'10
:O |
First born, 6' and right handed. Often find that I'm the short one when flying with young FO's. Population getting taller all the time. ;)
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First born, left handed and 6ft 3ins
MP:hmm: |
1st Born...
Woops! I just asked ppl in my company and guess what? 70% is first born (me included). 80% is at least 1,80 height but only 25% is lefthanded.
Interesting :ok: |
Fourth born, 5'10", left handed.
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Left Handed
I heard that flying is a right-brain activity, which controls the left hand which means it's more of an art than science. Many artists are left-handed, flight planning is left-brain activity, computations, etc. Landing in a cross-wind is right-brain.
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